Bad Kid, David Crabb’s memoir of growing up gay in San Antonio during the 1990s is a hoot and a holler as we say in Texas. But it is so much more. Early on, he and his best friend Greg came out to each other. They hit the teen club circuit—Changez, Phazez, and Club FX.…
Don Coyote: Flores’s ‘Sex as a Political Condition’
Carlos Nicolas Flores’s new novel, Sex as a Political Condition, bears the subtitle “a Border novel” and has a distinctly Mexican-American flavor, but its observations are universal. It sees the world through the perspective of Honoré, a former drug trafficker trying to survive selling knickknacks to tourists. Among the knickknacks are some old tin soldiers–a…
Jamie Brickhouse, Dangerous When Wet, at the Twig
Jamie Brickhouse: Dangerous When Wet 5:30pm, Thursday, May 14 The Twig Book Shop, free Acclaimed debut author and Trinity University alumnus Jaime Brickhouse returns to his native Texas this Thursday at The Twig Book Shop to read from his new memoir, Dangerous When Wet, at the book shop located in the Pearl on Thursday, May 14, at 5:30…
Dear John Willie: The Complete Reprint of John Willie’s ‘Bizarre’
In olden days, a glimpse of stocking/Was looked on as something shocking/ But now, God knows/Anything goes Cole Porter, seeing the world changing before his eyes, wrote “Anything Goes” in 1934. It felt like a sexual revolution. It wasn’t; humans more or less behave like humans no matter what era you pick. The differences…
Jotos del Barrio: Shapeshifting toward consciousness
The idea of mestizaje has long permeated the pages of the queer Xicano literary canon. We exist in many places at once, all of our identities speaking to each other in symphony. We should not have to defend the multifaceted elements of our existence–instead, we should celebrate the parts of ourselves that make us different,…
An evening with Rebecca Solnit, mansplaining and more
Trinity University, Holt Center 106 Oakmont Court November 12, 2014 6:30 pm (wine reception begins at 5:30) Free Ever been to a party and some chap starts talking to you about a book that you are, in fact, the author of? Rebecca Solnit feels your ambivalence. In her seminal essay Men Explain Things To Me, she…
Steamy Sunday Funday with Domingo de Pecado
Domingo de Pecado: A sinful reading by Kórima Press Authors Sunday November 9, 2014 4-6 pm More details here Put on your best knickers for an afternoon of sex, sin, and storytelling. Kórima Press and Trinity University’s Modern Languages and Literature Department Present Domingo de Pecado: A sinful reading by Kórima Press Authors. Featuring Jesus…
The Fourth Annual Dobie Dichos
Friday, October 31, 2014 6–9:30pm Oakville, TX Tickets may be purchased here (361) 449-2481 “In the university I am a wild man” J. Frank Dobie wrote this to his wife, adding, “in the wilds I am a scholar and a poet.” Storyteller and Texan J. Frank Dobie spent his entire life walking the line between…